Cabled Wilson loops in BF theories

DOI10.1063/1.531595MaRDI QIDQ5284818zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Alberto Cattaneo

Publication date 22 January 1997

Published in Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/q-alg/9602015, https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/22541/11/1.531595.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

knot invariantsWilson loopsAlexander-Conway polynomialBF theories

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

Abstract: A generating function for cabled Wilson loops in three-dimensional BF theories is defined, and a careful study of its behavior for vanishing cosmological constant is performed. This allows an exhaustive description of the unframed knot invariants coming from the pure BF theory based on SU(2), and in particular, it proves a conjecture relating them to the Alexander-Conway polynomial.

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